AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 



OF 



Horticultural Products. 



BY THE SECRETARY. 



Since the public-spirited management of the World's Industrial and Cot- 

 ton Centennial Exposition, to be held in New Orleans during the winter and 

 spring of 1884^'85, have placed the entire control and care of the Department 

 of Horticulture in charge of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society 

 and its officers, and in view of the unprecedented liberality and i:>rominenee 

 shown this dej^artment, the Secretary deems it but just and proper that a 

 somewhat extended notice of the exhibition be given a place here. 



This seems doubly appropriate since it is due to the untiring and indefat- 

 igable energy of our honored president, Hon. Parker Earle, of Cobdcn, Ills., 

 that we are indebted for the liberal recognition here shown the horticultural 

 interests. As preliminary to this notice, I first republish the following ex- 

 tract from an advance circular prepared and published by Mr. Earle in De- 

 cember last, and which was submitted to the Society at its late meeting, 

 where his action was fully approved. After the introductory, and proi)or 

 explanations of facts, which led to the adoption of the liberal schedule of 

 premiums to be awarded in the Department of Horticulture, INIr. Earle adds : 



The Exposition Managers will erect a building especially adapted to the display 

 of plants and fruits. This Horticultural Building will be about six hundred feet 

 long 1)y one hundred feet wide, and will be a handsome and convenient structure, 

 which, with the landscape embellishments adjacent, will cost .flOt^OOO. They will, 

 at an early day, issue a list of premiums for fruits, in medals and money, which 

 will aggregate from .$12,000 to S15,0(J0.* We expect to secure an exhibit of all 

 such fruits as will be in season at any part of the period of six months during 



* The Premium List, as already published, aggregates .825,000 in money and 

 medal values. 



